{"id":10732,"date":"2021-10-11T02:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10732"},"modified":"2021-10-11T02:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:16:56","slug":"high-altitude-siding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10732","title":{"rendered":"High Altitude Siding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to muster the resolve to spend a day doing acrobatics on ladders, but once things are underway, you get in the groove and it&#8217;s actually pleasant. Still, I definitely earned my beer today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fighting recalcitrant boards as always.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5505-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10733\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5505-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cutting station visitor<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5509-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10734\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5509-2-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I&#8217;m finally closing the rakes, and I&#8217;m finishing the wall how I started it: with meshing to prevent insect from going behind the siding but allow for air circulation.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5511-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10736\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5511-2-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The last piece!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5514-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10738\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5514-2-1024x587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This section is very hard to get to, stuck between 2 roofs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5513-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10737\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5513-2-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In fact at a certain height, I can only reach everything by adopting body positions which are not ladder approved. At that point I grab my harness and trusty GriGri.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5528-2-e1633917964862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10741\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5528-2-e1633917964862-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tethered to some dead weight on the other side of the house.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5539-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10739\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5539-2-1024x942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>It&#8217;s always super nice up there, the trees around the house are really growing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5524-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10740\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5524-2-1024x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to muster the resolve to spend a day doing acrobatics on ladders, but once things are underway, you get in the groove and it&#8217;s actually pleasant. Still, I definitely earned my beer today. Fighting recalcitrant boards as always. &nbsp; Cutting station visitor &nbsp; I&#8217;m finally closing the rakes, and I&#8217;m finishing the wall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Altitude Siding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building","category-self-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}